Re: improve bad habits deduplicate redundant defined values

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On 9/15/2021 8:40 AM, juh via ntg-context wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> these are quite general questions but here they come.
> 
> I defined modular styles for an organisation so that we can use
> different layouts with the same look and feel but still have many
> options to change things in a special document. I have styles for
> colors, fonts which are used everywhere but also styles for heads that
> are only used in legal context and other heads-styles used in other
> contexts.  This works brilliant. I can even overwrite styles for one
> document only.  I'd like to name this a cascading approach.
> 
> While doing this I learned a lot and changed the way the style files are
> organised from time to time.
> 
> Currently I start with colors and fonts. Then comes the page dimension
> definitions, makeups, headers and footers, headlines, the toc styles,
> lists and tables.

the order sounds ok to me

> Does anyone has a similar approach with a strong opinion how to organise
> the cascade?

if you use xml, that one comes last

> While working on this I often found that I defined something twice,
> because I forgot to delete a setup-command in a newly structured file.
> 
> Is there a way to test this? Can I grep for a warning in the log files
> to find these duplicates?
You can try this at the top:

%enabledirectives[overloadmode=warning]
\enabledirectives[overloadmode=error]

it's still sort of 'work in progress' (esp instances), so

\defineitemgroup[xxx]
\definehead[xxx]

will trigger an error (more commands will get the option to control what 
gets defined automatically)

you can work around warnings/errors with

\pushoverloadmode
   new definition
\popoverloadmode

bt keep in mind that some older settings can be persistent

Hans


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